The Charity Commission has announced that it has opened a regulatory compliance case into an anti-slavery charity co-founded by Princess Eugenie over concerns relating to its spending.
Eugenie co-founded Anti-Slavery Collective in 2017 alongside her friend Julia de Boinville; she currently serves as one of its three trustees.
The charity’s accounts for the financial year ending 5 April 2024 show that the Anti-Slavery Collective had raised £1.57m in donations and spent £378,000.
Much of the income that year was sourced from a major gala fundraiser held in London in 2023.
Meanwhile, its most recently filed accounts for the 2024-25, show that donations had dropped to £48,400 while its expenditure was £301,000.
A Charity Commission spokesperson told Civil Society: “We have opened a regulatory compliance case into Anti-Slavery Collective to continue assessing concerns raised with us about charitable spending.
“As part of this, we will be engaging further with the charity's trustees.”
The charity has been approached for comment.
Eugenie and family members’ exited roles at other charities
In March this year, Eugenie stepped down as a patron of another anti-slavery charity, Anti-Slavery International, after almost seven years in the role.
Since the release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, there have been several other announcements from charities with connections to Princess Eugenie’s family members.
In February, a charity set up by Eugenie’s mother Sarah Ferguson, announced its closure, after documents revealed ties between the former duchess of York.
The closure came after several charities last year cut ties with Ferguson, after it emerged that she had described Epstein as a “supreme friend” in a message to him in 2011.
Also last year, Eugenie’s sister Princess Beatrice’s role as a trustee at a youth charity Outward Bound Trust where her father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor used to be involved, came to an end.
There has been no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Eugenie, Beatrice or Ferguson in connection with Epstein. Mountbatten-Windsor has denied any wrongdoing.
